Strawberry and Chocolate

Synopsis

At the famous Coppelia ice-cream parlor in 1979 Havana, a handsome, dogmatic Young Communist League student choosing chocolate is approached by Diego, a flamboyant, cultured homosexual artist choosing strawberry, initiating an uneasy acquaintance meant to report counter-revolutionary activity that blossoms into a profound, transformative friendship challenging ideological intolerance and censorship in revolutionary Cuba. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío's Berlin Silver Bear-winning and Oscar-nominated masterpiece starring Jorge Perugorría and Vladimir Cruz.